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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 223, NWS Mobile, AL

July 26, 1998Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1998, 8:07 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1998, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1998, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Baldwin County, AL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 26, 8:12 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Perdido, AL

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 26, 3:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 3:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
300 PM CDT SUN JUL 26 1998

DEEP MOISTURE OVER THE CENTRAL GULF REGION WILL PERSIST THROUGH
MON AS RIDGE OVER THE S CENTRAL US BEGINS TO AMPLIFY AND EAST COAST
TROF DEEPENS SLIGHTLY THRU 36 HRS. NEAR THE SFC OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY
NEAR THE TN VALLEY WILL PUSH S'WARD INTO CENTRAL PARTS OF GA AND
EASTERN AL BEFORE RETREATING NORTHWARD LATER IN THE PD. UPPER TROF
OVER THE EAST COAST WILL BEGIN TO SHIFT SLOWLY EAST ALLOWING HIGH
PRES OVER THE SOUTH THE BUILD LATER IN THE PD. LATEST WV LOOPS SHOW
NEXT IMPULSE FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS TO PUSH SE BY MON ALLOWING
ANOTHER ROUND OF SCATTERED CONVECTION TO DEVELOP OVER THE REGION EAST
OF THE RIDGE. ALSO NOTED ON SATELITE...WEAK TROP WAVE MOVING INTO THE
EASTERN GULF POSSIBLY ALLOWING BETTER MOISTURE TO ADVECT NORTH AND
WEST FROM THE GULF BY EARLY MON. CURRENT FCST AND TEMPS LOOK CLOSE
THOUGH WILL GO SLIGHTLY HIGHER ON THE POPS MAINLY FOR THE EARLY
EVENING HRS.

OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE MOSTLY VARIABLE
AT 5 TO 10 KTS WITH MAYBE A WEAK C-BREEZE DEVELOPING NEAR THE FL CST
AND OVER MOB BAY BY MON AFT. SEAS 2 FT OF LESS WITH WINDS AND SEAS
HIGHER IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.

MOB 73/91/74/92 3535  PNS 75/91/76/92 3535
DTS 77/89/77/88 3435  GZH 72/91/72/93 3535 32

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.